19 points!

I finished a new story and posted it to Baen's Bar. Unfortunatly I realized after getting a few critiques that something that I had intended to be very clear was totally unclear to every reader who read it. So this one's going to take at least one more revision. Oh well, that's one of the reasons I like Baen's Bar. I can get that kind of feedback, and I have a second chance!

The 20th point will be coming soon as well. I have a new short story I'm working on for the Writer's of the Future contest. I think it has a lot of potential, and I've gotten a few critiques to base another revision on. A little more polish and it'll be ready to go out the door. I just have to mail it by the end of the month to enter it in this quarter. :)

Reviews coming soon

I realized I don't add new posts as often as I should. As a way to do so, I plan to start writing reviews. I have a subscription to F&SF magazine so I'll review those issues (one issue every two months), as well as books and other magazines that I read.

I'll intersperse these with writing updates, and any writing tips that I come up with! Stay tuned, and I'll do my best to make a new post at least once a week!

Novel query

ESP has now had my novel submission for 6 months now (as long as my short story career). They estimate 3-6 months for submission replies I sent off a query today. They estimate another 1-3 months to reply to queries.
With the geological pace maintained by the industry, I'll be published in no time!

18!

I finished a new flash piece (story that's less than 1000 words). This is the shortest I've written, only 600 words. It's off to Asimov's and that makes 18!

Analog submission lost

The Analog excitement was for naught. Either the submission or the reply got lost in the mail.

Analog Submission in Promising Territory

I have some hopeful news. I have a submission that's now been at Analog longer than any of the rejections listed on the statistics sites I use: Duotrope, Ralan, and Submitting to the Black Hole.
That could mean that the Dr. Stanley Schmidt (the editor of Analog) is giving it a second look. Or it could mean my manuscript got mangled in a mail sorter in the post office way back in October. Only time will tell...

17 points!

I FINALLY made some writing progress after stalling for a month. I got a big new project done for the quarterly Writers of the Future (WotF) competition. And I finished polishing another piece that had been sitting on the back burner since November. That was another Liberty Hall one. So I'm up to 17! Almost to 20!